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Published inMar 2016
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ISBN-139781783553570
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Jorge Palacios
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Jorge Palacios is a software and game developer with a BS in computer science and eight years of professional experience. He's been developing games for the last five years in different roles, from tool developer to lead programmer. Mainly focused on artificial intelligence and gameplay programming, he is currently working with Unity and HTML5. He's also a game-programming instructor, speaker, and game-jam organizer.
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Finding your way out of a maze with DFS


The Depth-First Search (DFS) algorithm is a path-finding technique suitable for low-memory devices. Another common use is to build mazes with a few modifications to the list of nodes visited and discovered, however the main algorithm stays the same.

Getting ready

This is a high-level algorithm that relies on each graph's implementation of the general functions, so the algorithm is implemented in the Graph class.

It is important to

How to do it...

Even though this recipe is only defining a function, please take into consideration the comments in the code to understand the indentation and code flow for effectively:

  1. Declare the GetPathDFS function:

    public List<Vertex> GetPathDFS(GameObject srcObj, GameObject dstObj)
    {
        // next steps
    }
  2. Validate if input objects are null:

    if (srcObj == null || dstObj == null)
        return new List<Vertex>();
  3. Declare and initialize the variables we need for the algorithm:

    Vertex src = GetNearestVertex(srcObj.transform...
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Jorge Palacios

Jorge Palacios is a software and game developer with a BS in computer science and eight years of professional experience. He's been developing games for the last five years in different roles, from tool developer to lead programmer. Mainly focused on artificial intelligence and gameplay programming, he is currently working with Unity and HTML5. He's also a game-programming instructor, speaker, and game-jam organizer.
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